If you're not following me on Bluesky you're missing out on a marathon of fun paired history facts about the countries in every World Cup matchup, featuring once-in-a-lifetime sentences like "In 1893, 200 Australian sheep shearers boarded a ship to follow a leftist labor journalist around Cape Horn and establish a utopian socialist, teetotal, whites-only New Australia on free land in the Paraguayan jungle." Remedy this immediately. ...
t's great that the cage fight at the White House - an almost fatally embarrassing thing in its own right; try saying the phrase out loud - is happening during the NBA Finals, the Stanely Cup Finals, and the Men's World Cup. Unless he dies at ringside, it might be the 4th sports headline on Monday. Emphasis on "might be."
Sure we're auctioning off whatever tiny shreds of dignity we have left as a nation but isn't it worth it to maybe be the top story on Yahoo! Sports for 20 minutes between World Cup group stage results like "Paraguay vs. Turkey" and "Ascension Island vs. Bir Tawil" ...
They're calling this an IPO because legally they can't print up a giant banner reading HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD A BAG, YOU BIG FUCKING IDIOT?
Make sure YOU don't miss out on the opportunity to put up 48% of the money for 4.2% of the stock! Book value, $8! ...
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me, describing Maynard James Keenan to the trainee police sketch artist who only fills in on weekends: ...
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Anubis Bard says:
"punishment for being outspoken and right". Not to mention black. Is the criminal justice system a mess? Yes, but that doesn't mean it's not doing what it is supposed to be doing. I used to study the Soviet Union, and one of the fascinating practices that the State settled on was a legal and criminal justice system that was so messed up and self-contradictory that everyone had to be something of a criminal just to get by. And that was certainly convenient for the State.
Croooow! says:
He broke THE LAW! Would you prefer Anarchy! I used to smoke too. I accuse my parents.
JD says:
So in addition to paying $100K per year to feed and house this nonviolent offender, taxpayers are now paying for monthly cross-country flights, just to make sure this guy doesn't set a certain plant on fire in their state? Someone should alert the Tea Party. But something about this case makes me think that they wouldn't protest this particular use of tax dollars.
Major Kong says:
He broke the law! We need to punish the law breaker!
I figure a $50 fine ought to cover it.
Heck, better throw the book at him, make it $100.
c u n d gulag says:
Oy.
And our Banksters gladly laundered money for the coke – not the soda – cartels, and look at how many of them are still in jail with long sentences.
ROFLMAO! *
Sorry…
I lied.
No one went to jail!
*Sometimes I even crack myself up!!!
Croooow! says:
I thought my state was better than this. I guess not. On behalf of Jersey, I'm sorry.
ladiesbane says:
This is where the low-church / right-wing / LiberTea faction of my family says, "These laws are too screwed up to fix. We need to dismantle the government and start over."
When asked how they would handle specific situations that involve true ethical dilemmas, the gross oversimplifications and fantasies begin. I don't like where they go with it, but I try to keep our shared bafflement at such news items in mind when I see them trying to grapple with the ideas and problems of law and policymaking.
Where do adults go to re-learn 8th grade Civics, by the way?
Robert says:
When I worked at the VA hospital in San Francisco, we had one patient who used MMJ quite a bit. We had an ongoing wrangle with him about smoking it IN the hospital; didn't matter what it was or why he was smoking it, we're a Federal facility so no smoking! That's something the SF writers didn't see coming.